european son /: pynchon mention in conference review

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 16:48, Malignd wrote:
> <<Were any of Nabokov's America novels explicitly
> about death? N not only wrote America novels but
> managed to put together an alternative America
> novel.>>
> 
> One might quibble with "explicitly" but Pale Fire
> certainly is.  The poem is a meditation on death and
> afterlife, considering the death of Shade's daughter.


this seems to me right on the money. Survival after death.

I think I'll make a silly pun to tie Pale Fire in with Waugh.

Hazel and Kimbote were very much unLoved Ones.

In my Catholic upbring the word was that people who commit suicide, even
after being stood up on dates like Hazel and Lusette in Ada were, should
not expect a happy afterlife.